Baltimore's St. Frances Academy Performs Miracles

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BALTIMORE - Consider the neighborhood. Words tumble to mind by way of description. Words like "desolate." Words like "tough." Words like "hard" and "mean" and "grim" and "sad." Words like "dead." Bail bonds and liquor stores are what pass for industry here. Ragged row houses, many boarded and abandoned, crowd one another like strangers in a bus shelter.

Now consider the girl who goes to school here. Danielle Branche, 16, is tiny, has a pretty smile and speaks with self-possession about her dreams. "When I graduate, I want to go to either Antioch College in Ohio or Point Park University in Pittsburgh, and I want to get my bachelor's in both dance and business management so I'll be able to open my own dance company."

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Baltimore's St. Frances Academy Performs Miracles

Consider the neighborhood. Consider the child. If they seem not to fit one another, well, that's the point. Welcome to St. Frances Academy. Welcome to What Wo...

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